Blackflash 42.3

"Editorial note: Pattern Recognition

This issue marks a transition for BlackFlash. We’re sunsetting thematic framing (for now) and moving toward a less categorical way of assembling each issue. Accordingly, our final theme, “Patterns,” is an apt pivot point: a flexible prompt that gestures toward a way of seeing that tracks subtle links. 

Because production schedules often overlap, themes tend to persist into the following issue. There is almost always a hinge piece; here, it’s Jon Davies’ joint profile of Kyle Alden Martens and B. Brookbank, written in the wake of their exhibition at C’cap (Winnipeg), Your Voice, My Throat. Situated between “Domestic” and “Patterns,” Davies traces how the couple’s distinct practices converge around questions of intimacy and shared space..."

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